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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They have remote drivers that CAN take control in very corner case situations that the software can’t handle. The vast majority of driving is don’t without humans in the loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think a new player needs to play KCD1 before playing 2? I’ve never played either and am ready to start a new game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on my image search engineering, the answer to your question is 2.

  Based on my one semester of air breathing propulsion that I took 25 years ago, I’m guessing there is more going on inside the turbine part of the engine that both allows sustainable fuels that current turbofans can’t and also allows compression ratios at lower fan speeds that allows an open fan with fewer blades. Again, I barely passed air breathing propulsion back then and haven’t used ANY of that knowledge since, so I’m mostly talking out of my ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly more scared of that. Professional CDL drivers are WAY better at driving than other people. But their trucks are way more dangerous and harder to handle. So putting driverless tech in that is going to be harder and more dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was clearly only talking about cars, not pedestrians. Driverless cars have already shown they are pretty good at avoiding pedestrians and cyclists and scooters and dogs. Even in the case of the pedestrian hit by the Cruise car, that pedestrian was hit by another car first and then thrown into the path of the Cruise. The one case of a dog hit by a car was a dog running out from behind parked cars with no time for a human to stop, let alone the Waymo… and dogs don’t usually wave and signal to drivers on the road.

  As far as retrofitted cars, this is about improving the current system not requiring 100% compliance. Do you ban people from driving on the roads if they don’t wave at you on a one-car wide road? No. So you don’t have to ban cars that don’t have this tech. But when more and more cars DO have the tech, then you get improvements over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the fact that after 50 million miles of driving there have been no pedestrian or cyclist deaths means they are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists? As far as I can tell, the only accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists AT ALL after 50 million miles is when a Waymo struck a plastic crate that careened into another lane where a scooter ran into it. And yet in your mind they are unbelievably unsafe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just fine the one time I rode in one. It had a problem with a moving truck blocking the entire street, where it sat trying to wait to see if the moving truck was just stopped and going to move or if it was parked for good. The Waymo executed a 3 point turn and then had two construction trucks pull into the street the other direction, and they refused to back up. So the Waymo was stuck between not going forward and not going back… it just pulled forward toward the trucks and then reversed toward the moving truck. Back and forth. Then I yelled out the window for the fucking trucks to move out of the fucking road, which they couldn’t drive down anyway. After that it was smooth, even getting into the parking lot.

  My buddy said at his office the Waymos have an issue with pulling too far forward at the pick up spots, which makes it impossible for cars to go around them, but humans do dumb shit like that, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Waymo reports the statistical data it has, which happens to be pretty good.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not saying general road safety is 20x better. They’re comparing an automated car ONLY on surface streets with lights, intersections, pedestrians, dogs, left turns, etc… to a professional truck driver mostly on highway miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when vehicle to vehicle communication will come into play. When we can automate the driving and link the cars’ comm systems together, it becomes a network management problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without GPS: EU researchers develop satellite-independent navigation system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a satellite based nav system. This would be a new development that is presumably ground based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without GPS: EU researchers develop satellite-independent navigation system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GPS and Galileo satellites are in MEO, not GEO. GEO is a very specific altitude to keep a satellite directly over the same spot on Earth at all times (synced to the spin of Earth). MEO, on the other hand, is a wide range of altitudes roughly half the altitude of GEO. GPS sits right around 9800 nautical miles, which is 11200 miles. That’s still really far away, so your point stays the same. Galileo is in a similar orbit, I think around 200 miles lower but I can’t remember. GLONASS is there, too. Beidou from China has birds in both MEO and GEO. QZSS from Japan uses one GEO bird and three birds in a highly inclined orbit at GEO altitude.

  Your two points are good. I think a third point would be that this is a different RF spectrum, while GPS and Galileo are on roughly the same RF spectrum. Jamming GPS and Galileo at the same time isn’t difficult. Jamming a very different RF spectrum at the same time is much harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I freaking loved my Bolt. I was planning to get another before I started construction and needed a truck. Then I was planning to get a Bolt after this truck since I wouldn’t need it anymore, but they killed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM blocks dealership from installing Apple CarPlay retrofit kits in EVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simmer down. I never said you said anything about children. I was giving a related law that could be invoked in the case of people with Downs syndrome. You said grown adults doing grown adult things in a conversation about AI generated images of people with Downs syndrome. I was saying there are existing laws SIMILAR to what you are talking about but involving children. Many grown adults with Downs are not able to legally give consent and don’t have the capacity to understand what is being done in certain situations, which is the same reasoning for laws around sexual images of children.

  I mentioned all of that in my reply to you. Why you chose to overlook all that and focus only on one sentence is beyond my understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not illegal to create digital art (even the disgusting kind) which depicts fictitious grown adults doing grown adult things.

  In the US and Australia, it actually is illegal to create art of children in sexual situations. I’m sure other countries have similar laws. Some people with Downs are able to provide consent, but not all of them. So it is a murky area whether creating art around people who are unable to provide consent (as opposed to creating art about people who did not consent) is in the same boat as children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the infrastructure for the standard use case you talk about isn’t pervasive enough. Most apartments don’t have chargers at all, let alone one per apartment. You can drive by a Tesla or DC fast charge station at almost any time of day in a big city and see a line of cars waiting to use the small number of chargers. People are taking naps in their car in a bank parking lot while charging. Kudos to them for embracing the inconvenience of not charging at home to help the environment, but I never would have bought my 2 EVs if I didn’t have charging at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this doesn’t make sense to me. Starlink needs a dish that has to be outside without trees covering it, so it isn’t like they can place new routers around the building that receive Starlink and have wifi capability. They will still have to run a cable from the dish(es?) to new wireless routers. How is that ANY different from just running new wireless routers from their existing fiber?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if any thing in that video looked even remotely realistic, except maybe the lame handstand ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to use Chinese giant Alibaba’s AI in iPhones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they should’ve used Alibaba/Qwen for their other markets, too.

  Which would get them banned from all government use. Smart call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding from a video I watched is it’s a mix of shrinking world survival like PUBG and co-op Elden Ring with a boss at the end of each day when a shrinking happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I had almost forgotten about that bit of absolute lunacy. I had just switched from working F9 certification to Vulcan cert when that happened, and I’ll just say nobody I worked with was surprised they blew up another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when can we expect level 4 self driving to be commercialized? is it near (1-2 years away)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what you mean by “commercialized.”

  My neighborhood has Waymo cars driving around all day every day. I can even pay them money to book a ride in one, like a Lyft or Uber. So in that sense, full self driving is commercialized.

  Will consumers be able to buy a level 4 car in the next 1-2 years? No. While governments have given limited approvals for large-scale testing of self driving cars, the hurdles to selling anything like that to your average moron is far in the future. Governments will have to legislate all kinds of shit, including who is at fault in accidents and where they are allowed to drive. Insurance companies will have to figure out how to write contracts and how much to charge. And all of that ignores the technical challenges of getting it working properly and consistently in consumer vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I hate using cash, I understand that the credit card companies charge ridiculous fees to businesses and also that people with very low income don’t always have access to digital forms of payment. Maybe Sweden does better with equipping their entire society with digital tools, but in the US I don’t think we are ready for a fully digital payment society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to Netscape?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My memory is hazy, but I’m pretty sure Mozilla was a package and most people just didn’t install the rest of the package. Everyone called the browser Mozilla because they didn’t use the other parts. I could definitely be wrong, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trillian was definitely part of that war. I remember the daily patches to get things working again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trillian was not Mac only. I’ve never owned a Mac and used Trillian almost exclusively from 2002 until roughly 2009?? I can’t remember when the transition from IM to texting happened for me, but it was around then. When I was running Linux at home I would use Gaim, which was developed by a friend of the main Trillian guy.